Laurent Pelly

Laurent Pelly is a French opera and theatre director born in Paris in 1962. He enjoys a career as one of France's most sought after directors of both theatre and opera, working regularly in the world’s most prestigious houses.

Biography

In 1980 (at the age of 18) he founded the Compagnie Théâtrale du Pélican which, since 1982, has been co-directed with Agathe Mélinand.
From 1994, he became associated with Le Centre Dramatique National des Alpes (CDNA), Grenoble being appointed as director from 1997 to 2007.
In 2007 he was appointed as co-director, with Agathe Mélinand, at the Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (TNT).
Laurent Pelly is particularly renowned for his work in French repertoire, and has a skill for revealing the serious side of comedy.
He underlines his interpretation of characters through skilful and inspired costume designs and in recent years has expanded into set design.
His productions are detailed, satirical, often surreal, exquisite in taste and wonderfully imaginative in both conception and execution.
Many of Laurent Pelly’s productions have been filmed for DVD and broadcast on world wide television.

Laurent Pelly

Laurent Pelly is a French opera and theatre director born in Paris in 1962. He enjoys a career as one of France's most sought after directors of both theatre and opera, working regularly in the world’s most prestigious houses.

Biography

In 1980 (at the age of 18) he founded the Compagnie Théâtrale du Pélican which, since 1982, has been co-directed with Agathe Mélinand.
From 1994, he became associated with Le Centre Dramatique National des Alpes (CDNA), Grenoble being appointed as director from 1997 to 2007.
In 2007 he was appointed as co-director, with Agathe Mélinand, at the Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (TNT).
Laurent Pelly is particularly renowned for his work in French repertoire, and has a skill for revealing the serious side of comedy.
He underlines his interpretation of characters through skilful and inspired costume designs and in recent years has expanded into set design.
His productions are detailed, satirical, often surreal, exquisite in taste and wonderfully imaginative in both conception and execution.
Many of Laurent Pelly’s productions have been filmed for DVD and broadcast on world wide television.

Latest News for: laurent pelly

French director LaurentPelly’s charming production of Massenet’s Cinderella opera, which unfolds — literally — out of the pages of a giant storybook, has been enchanting audiences around the world since it first showed up at the Santa Fe Opera in 2006...DirectorPelly ......

Yet director LaurentPelly, conductor Corrado Rovaris and soprano Brenda Rae delivered such a collision of ideas — and such an extreme execution of them — you almost wanted to leave at intermission ...DirectorPelly has said the opera isn't a love story, but a 19th-century power ......

The idea was to create a festival of innovative work that packed five different operas — three of them world premieres — into 10 days of virtually nonstop activity ... F ... Donizetti’s tragic “Lucia di Lammermoor” starring soprano Brenda Rae, is being presented in a new production by LaurentPelly, best known for his inventive work on comedies ... .......

Donizetti's famous study in operatic madness, Lucia di Lammermoor, is reimagined as a shadowy, hallucinatory expressionistic world by director LaurentPelly, whose international acclaim has come mainly from his work in comedies ... feeling and thought instilled in them," Pelly said....

A soot storm of musical notes showers down on the cast in , the first of two Rossini operas that bookend this year’s Edinburgh international festival ... In this lively, highly physical production from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the French director-designer LaurentPelly has one metaphor. music ... Sharper drill was needed ... ....

LaurentPelly’s modish take on Rossini’s opera is an extended visual gag on the nuts and bolts of the composer’s trade, the action playing out across the manuscript page. There are some droll touches ...Sign up for the Sleeve Notes email. music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras ... ....